Saint Christ de Maracaibo
03-06-2010 golden videos27-05-2010 RTVE
Saint Christ de Maracaibo
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A Spanish businessman assures to have found the galleon sunk in 1702. The historical value” of the remains of the ship that they say to have found over the supposed load of gold that might be in the galleon, valued for 1.500 million Euros. In Spain a press conference mysterious has taken place and announced as of a “informative explosion” related to the find “of the most looked flotsam of all the times”. The meaning of life has been the supposed find of the Holy galleon Christ de Maracaibo belonging to the Fleet of the Indies, lost after the Battle of Rande of 1702, in laughs at Vigo. The flotsam taken the Englishmen and loaded with the gold found in the captured galleons, sank when the Englishmen were returning. Pedro Terrón, author of the saga Kalixti on the shipwreck of the galleon, has assured that the flotsam located in 2004 in should laugh at Vigo he is, with a reliability of “99,9 %”, the Saint Christ.
Lump also has announced the achievement of a documentary on the ship and the possible adaptation to the movies of his novel, Kalixti, the key of the dawn (inspired in the galleon), for a producer of Hollywood, action managed by Jesus Ciordia, the representative of Antonio Banderas.
In the press conference there have accompanied to Lump the professional diver Daniel Moraleja and the businessman and investigator marine Luis Valero of Bernabé, representative of the North American company See Hunt, dedicated to the rescue of subaquatic treasures, with whom the writer has come to an agreement on the filming of the historical documentary that narrates the odyssey of the ship.
Experts of Culture believe impossibly the find
Nevertheless, diverse present experts in the press conference have doubted the find.
Enrique Lechuga, archaeologist and General Secretary of the Latin-American Foundation for the Promotion of the Culture and Sciences of the Sea, has made sure that the find is “absolutely impossible because I have documentary witnesses first hand. I coordinate a team of 20 persons who take 15 years being employed at this project”.
Asked if the Department of Culture has steadfastness on the find of the ship, Bernabé's Valero declared that “it has given part” of the discovery, and that the ship is “under the competition of the Galician autonomous government”.
Nevertheless, the submarine archaeologist Carlos León, who works for the Department of Culture, has declared that in the Department “they do not know it, they do not have any steadfastness of this discovery”.
Sources of the Department also deny that one has communicated to them the supposed find. Others consulted also have assured the same.
Both León and Lettuce, two critical experts with the possibility of the find, have affirmed that the fact of not wanting to reveal the depth to which Bernabé's-Valero finds the found flotsam refused to reveal it - it puts in suspicion the discovery.
“One of the investigations that they have entrusted me was just the location of the Saint Christ de Maracaibo. If they do not detail the depth, it is not possible to know if it is true”, it has justified Lettuce.
A load valued for 1.500 million euros
Lettuce has declared that “they are much removed of being able to find it” because the ship “is to a depth of more 500 meters and the technology to do an excavation of this depth is tremendously costly”.
Also, he has underlined that the remains of a flotsam to 500 meters are "estudiables" and "investigables", but not "recoverable".
For his part, Bernabé's Valero, which takes part in See Hunt as president of Tupet S.A., he has argued that “has capital and technology” to extract the flotsam of the bottom of the sea.
Also it has defended “the historical value” of the remains of the ship that they say to have found over the supposed load of gold that might be in the galleon, valued for 1.500 million Euros.
After the inflamed discussion, Bernabé's Valero admitted that it is not “hundred for hundred” insurance of which the opposing ship is the Saint Christ de Maracaibo.
“In this world, there knows each other the one who is who. There are investigators and there are speculators”, it has concluded Lettuce, which was not invited to the conference and knew for a journalist of Vigo that the supposed find would appear.
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29-05-2010 I her Go of Gallicia
The Saint Christ de Maracaibo did not exist, he might be Nuestra Señora of the Remedies
One of the most curious affirmations of this businessman is that the Saint Christ de Maracaibo did not exist. “I do not know if you will know that the Saint Christ de Maracaibo is a legend that Robert Sténuit has extracted; with this name it does not exist, he might be Nuestra Señora of the Remedies, one of the galleons most loaded with the fleet”, affirms Luis Valero.
In any case, after the supposed find, this businessman affirms that he communicated it to the Department of Culture and gave his coordinates. Later, he says that he met in Santiago with the director xeral of Patrimony, to the ripeness Ángel Sicart. “They were looking at it with very much fondness, but they took a long time so much that the elections came and it brought in a new Government of the Spanish socialist party and the BNG, and I forgot the topic up to the date”, it adds.
As for the imputation that the Civil Guard did to him for the case Bay II, Luis Valero says that it was an injustice: "We were whom we warn about the intentions that the company Odyssey had with regard to the flotsam of the Sussex, close to Gibraltar”. “The proper Civil Guard says that we manage to throw for the time being Odyssey, which was in waters of Andalusia with a permission of Foreign affairs that was not valid”, adds.
Wikipedia
Fleet of the Indies
Manuel Lucena:
“The Fleet of the Indies was «the mechanism of functioning of the Spanish commercial monopoly with America and it constituted the extract of the so called Career of the Indies, which was including the whole commerce and the navigation of Spain with his colonies.”
Wikipedia
Attacks Pirates suffered by the Spanish Ships
1697: The Holy galleon Christ de Maracaibo was captured by the French.
Kalixti
The Saint Christ de Maracaibo
On October 23 of 1.702, in full laugh at Vigo (Spain), the famous Rande battle happened.
A fierce shock that it finished with numerous falls, the lost Fleet of the Indies completely and a legendary shipwreck. The winners of the contest loaded all the gold and wealths that found in one of the captured galleons, his name: Saint Christ de Maracaibo.
It was then when the destination also wanted to fight and did it in his against. An unexpected reverse caused the death of that mythical vessel that finished plunged in the Atlantic Ocean. There rest his tons of gold and mysteries still for revealing. An investigators' cluster they have tried to find it uselessly. The same destination wanted to keep his remains zealously … up to today.
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